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It is highly instructive that Ms. Cobden does not once mention the teachers union as a factor in what the article writer calls the "strained" relationships within the school department. Ms. Cobden seems to be relieving the WTU of its responsibility for the two years of work-to-rule, pickets outside of City Hall, sick-outs, and ongoing bitter rhetoric from its president that preceded the final agreement to a new labor contract -- all of which, arguably, resulted in the same deal the WTU could have gotten two years ago.

The Warwick School Committee does not need another member who will point fingers at everyone except the union.